forBrothers

Allendale, New Jersey, USA

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forBrothers is a rock band that could be described as a modern blend of Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young vocals with a touch of over-driven guitar and melodic bass lines; or quite simply put, folk on steroids.

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Biography

forBrothers
is Shaant Shishmanian, Aram Shishmanian, Ben Marino, and Cole Marino. They are hometown friends born, raised, and
currently living in Allendale, NJ. Ben,
Shaant, and Aram were in the same grade from 1st through 12th
grade, living on the same block most of those years. The brothers grew up singing and playing in
school bands, family, and church functions.

The two
sets of brothers first performed together at the wedding of Ben and Cole’s
sister in December 2013. At the request
of the bride, they performed “High Hills,” an original song that Shaant had
written years earlier. Family and
friends alike decided that something had to be done about the sound and
chemistry that so naturally came together between the brothers. forBrothers was formed in the summer of
2014. Writing, recording and performing
began.

Partnering
with Indiegogo, the band set out to raise funds for a professionally recorded,
self-produced, full-length album. Thanks
to the incredible support of fans and friends across the globe, their goal of
$16,500 was met over the course of a 60-day campaign.

On July
7, 2015, forBrothers released their first single, “Josephine,” accompanied by a
lyric video up on YouTube. Soon after on
July 24th, their debut album “FOOL” was released.

Since
then, the band has performed to crowds of up to 1,000+, worked alongside major
organizations such as The Salvation Army USA, Urban Kingdom, and GBIMC, and has
shared the stage with Phil Keaggy, Sleepy Man, decker., C. Gibbs, and Victory Dance (ex
Fancy Reagan), among others.

Their music could be
described as a modern blend of Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young vocals with a
touch of over-driven guitar and melodic bass lines; or quite simply, folk on
steroids.

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Lyrics

Fool

Written By: Shaant Shishmanian

If I decide to find another dream; another world that I can seekIf I decide to be king of the world, Would you support my decision you boys and girls?Just please make my own decisions so I can be the king of the world And be lazy and be crazy, have all the money, and all the riches in the world'Cause I'm a fool

Fall On Me

When your feet and your knees they buckle and failWhen you stumble on a pebble and you're on your way downWhen the ground it crumbles underneath your beingDo not fear death just fall on me

Fall on me

When the grip of your mother on your body is lostAnd arises the limit of your father's foresightWhen your life is not in their hands at allDon't you worry just fall on me

Fall on me

When your spirit is oppressed and your strength is goneAnd the pressure on your lungs is just too muchWhen your heart it breaks and ceases to beat,

Fall on me

I'll be the one to keep you on your two feetCome away with me I'll give my love to youLet me be the one to truly keep you nestledAnd show you everything no creature can conceive by itselfEven when it comes to death I'd give you all of my lifeIf only you would set your guard down before me won't you fall

Fall on me

Make Something Right (feat. Carli Lampley)

Written By: Shaant Shishmanian,Ben Marino

Millions of people who all had a motherWere cradled with loveWatched over from aboveThe truth is that we've all been wounded

Children are pureDefenseless and feebleThey're innocent babiesSustained by others,But evil has a plan to take hold. So we say

Make something right again

She trusted a man and he had such nice eyesBlack petty peacoat; He was just so fineHe led her to believe he loved her. So she said

Make something right again

We lost our trust in another and we questionedEvery man on the face of this wretched earthIs there a way to instill a childlike innocence And go back to when getting hurt was just so simple?

Make something right again

Millions of people who all had a motherWere cradled with loveWatched over from aboveThe truth is that we've all been wounded

Don't Know Me

Written By: Shaant Shishmanian

I see you climbing up my window Why don't you come up and say Hello? Say HelloDon't struggle 'cause I'll help you up and see to it that you, you don't fallLet's play for a whileLet's stay and reconcile

I see you climbing up my window Why don't you shut it and let me go? Let me goYou say, Don't struggle 'cause I'll help you up and see to it that you; you don't fallI shouldn't let you come near me'Cause you don't know me

Who are you? You're beautiful, but your eyes deceiveI ought to pray lest I fall; lest I fall

This enigmatic voice, which calls me and I respond blindlyAnd in the midst of taking part in this game, I find myself bleeding my bloodI shouldn't let you come near me, 'cause you don't know me.

The enemy prowls like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devourTo devour your soulTake refuge in the one who delivers you from the snare of the trapperAnd keeps you by still waters

Foothold

And now I yell,Please don't let me fallNow make me vigilant'Cause I don't need to bleed'Cause He bledHe bled

We don't need to feel guiltyNo, no more shameThere is freedom all around us

'Cause He bledHe bled

No foothold on meYeah, there ain't no foothold on meAmen. There's no foothold

Sarkis

Written By: Shaant Shishmanian,Haig Shishmanian

Beautiful eyes, thought they were blueWorks with stone and mud and scrapNo one is leftBut he loves his friends

He is a fish out of waterHe mourns in a city; the people no longer hisHe's an outsider

Apathetically sympathetic know-not-much

Young boys turned to old boys

Not knowing good from bad Only pain and pleasure

Look into Sarkis' eyes, you'll see yourselfIf you can bear his smile, lookSay something; anythingHe will break youOn the ride back home to your western lifeYou won't want to liveShame on you

Beautiful eyes, thought they were blueWorks with stone and mud and scrapNo one is leftBut he loves his friends, ohBut he loves his friendsWe should love our friends

Pain

Written By: Shaant Shishmanian,Bob Marino

Here we go againYeah, it's you and me, my friendsOutside we seem just fineBut inside we push to smileIt's the pain that follows us

It binds us to the groundIt's made us slaves. We've become slavesI'm prone to rebellionOh, sleek and sick rebellionIt's the pain that follows us

In my heart I am disturbedI am in tormentMy groans are manyAnd my aching heart is faintIt's the pain that follows us

O Lord, look on my affliction,For the enemy has triumphed over meMy sins have been bound into a yokeThey have been hung on my neckFor I've been most rebellious

It's the pain that follows us

Josephine

Written By: Shaant Shishmanian

Josephine, JosephineYou had life but left it behindJosephine, JosephineWe'll never forgetBut your life was unlived

I know it was hard to breatheI know it was hard to slumberI question the worth of suffering in the mindTo live, or not to live

To accept grace would take away the pain; and loveAh, what a deep loveBut this knowledge was taken from youRipped away and you did not see it

Should we say if only?Would you have been here?But we did not know your heartWe did not know your heartBut He did, He did

Josephine, JosephineYou had life but left it behindJosephine, JosephineWe'll never forgetBut your life was unlived

High Hills

Written By: Shaant Shishmanian

Though the fig tree may not blossom, may not blossomNor fruit be on the vines, on the vines Though the labor of the olive may fail, it may fail And the fields yield no food, no food Oh, though the flock may be cut off from the fold, And there be no herd in the stalls

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.The Lord God is my strength; And He will make my feet like the deer’s feet, Oh and He will make me walk on my high hills